Iguala Mayor, Wife Accused of Ordering Deadly Attack on Mexican Students Cecilia Sanchez and Tracy Wilkinson - The Los Angeles Times
go to original October 23, 2014

Mexico: Mayor's arrest is ordered as anger grows over missing students (euronews)

A fugitive mayor and his drug lord-connected wife ordered an attack on rebellious students that ended in the deaths of six people and disappearance of 43, Mexico’s top law enforcement official said Wednesday.

Making his most direct accusation to date, Atty. Gen. Jesus Murillo Karam said what many Mexicans already believed: Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca feared the students from a rural teachers college in Guerrero state would disrupt a party and speech that his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, was holding to tout her accomplishments. She is head of a state social welfare agency.

Using a code name, A-5, Abarca ordered local police to crack down on the students to prevent the disruption, Murillo said. Police from Iguala and nearby Cocula intercepted the students who were traveling in commandeered buses toward Iguala. Authorities have previously said that the Iguala police have been working hand in hand for some time with a criminal gang known as Guerreros Unidos (roughly: United People of Guerrero).

Murillo said Pineda is related to top leaders of a drug gang and was Guerrero Unidos' “principal operator” in Iguala.

“Teach them a lesson,” Pineda reportedly told the police chief, referring to the students, the newspaper El Universal reported this week, based on legal documents.

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